Today’s #PSA . This is an amazing opportunity! Atria has the magic touch when it comes to fiction that gets terrific reviews and sells lots of copies. Go learn from the best in the book biz!

Hope to see you all! Two cool authors at a super-cool bookstore!

Two great recommendations from a writer with impeccable taste!

Lunchtime read: Uche Okonkwo's 'Debris,' a short, heartbreaking highlight from A KIND OF MADNESS. lithub.com/debris/ The young protag, D’boy, does not have parents who can care for him or a societal safety net. He's out on his own, and he must do whatever it takes to survive.

'The stories in this collection came together in the space of over a decade—during which I had lived on three continents and my music tastes had changed somewhat.'

Uche Okonkwo author of 💫A Kind of Madness on her Book Notes column David Gutowski !

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Thank you to Francie & Finch Bookshop Timothy Schaffert Tin House and everyone who came to the launch for A Kind of Madness ❤❤❤

Here's what 2024 Dublin Literary Award judge Chris Morash had to say about Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You:

'Escoffery blurs the lines between the short story and the novel in a work that brings us into the lives of Jamaican-Americans in Miami.'

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Here is Jennifer Garner bringing you 25 seconds of joy.

Congratulations, Uche! Honored to have worked on A KIND OF MADNESS w/ Tin House! Publishers Weekly said it best: 'Okonkwo has a Chekhovian eye for the tangle of internal motivations & assumptions that steer her characters....Readers will be eager for more of [her] artful writing.

Looking forward to celebrating these amazing debutantes at the OS Literary Debutante Ball! Hope to see y'all.

Hope to see you all on Saturday!

Congratulations to Jonathan Escoffery and his team MCD⨯FSG, 4th Estate Books, and McClelland & Stewart! And congrats to all the nominees! Thank you to all the librarians who nominated their favorite titles. Shout-out to Jamaica Library Services for nominating IF I SURVIVE YOU!

You know why nobody “wants” to read story collections? It’s because the publishing industry has convinced those readers they shouldn’t “want” to read them.

I’ve read more short stories that have had more emotional impact on me than novels. Just saying.

Two out of two doctors recommend Uche Okonkwo A KIND OF MADNESS (@Tin_House; April 17, 2024)! Preorder your copy here: tinhouse.com/book/a-kind-of… Wouldn’t want to disappoint Dr. Widdershins…

Lots of great points on (the frivolity of - in the positive sense) fantasy in this interview with Kelly Link by Katy Waldman. And nice to read this answer in particular after being asked a few times about the uncanniness of a teenager, and his multiple selves, in a translation.

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Kelly Link and Katy Waldman in a delightful deep-dive conversation.

Today’s #PSA . Amazing opportunity!

'Wandering Stars,' Tommy Orange's follow-up to his 2018 debut, 'There There,' is a towering achievement, Jonathan Escoffery writes. Part prequel, part sequel, the novel considers the fallout of colonization and the forced assimilation of Native Americans. nyti.ms/3Idy873

Delighted to share this ⭐️ PW review for Uche Okonkwo’s glorious debut, A KIND OF MADNESS: publishersweekly.com/9781959030386 “Okonkwo has a Chekhovian eye for the tangle of internal motivations and assumptions that steer her characters…Readers will be eager for more of her artful writing”